It’s verrrrry slowly turning into Fall. V loves school SO much. Time to get things organized in the kitchen. Valley girl requested granola for breakfast the next morning (while I tucked her into bed at night) and since I hadn’t made any in a while I decided to give her what she wanted. It’s so quick and easy to make.  It literally takes under 5 minutes to mix so the only thing I have to account for is when I start because it takes an hour to bake.  I started it at 8 so I… Read more >

I don’t have many pics from the weekend because the rummage sale exhausted me on Saturday, but I did make a frosty blended iced coffee drink as soon as I got home.  It was 1 pm and I hadn’t even had lunch yet, but it’s all I wanted. I left that morning before the sun was up and biked over to the church in the dark. Then we all got things organized in the parking lot while waiting for the sun to wake up.  It was kinda awesome.  The rest of the morning was a… Read more >

Remember when I used to “cook the cover” of Bon Appetit mag?  I actually don’t think I made it quite to a full year, but I was close.  And then I stoped because BA’s recipes stopped exciting me.  Lately it’s been a little better though.  I make at least one or two things from each month’s edition, so that’s a decent average I guess. As you’d expect, the October issue had a full page of ideas for America’s favorite squash – BUTTERNUT! I thought the chorizo hash sounded perfectly easy for a week night meal,… Read more >